[TUHS] Happy birthday, Ken Thompson!

Steve Nickolas usotsuki at buric.co
Mon Feb 4 17:59:03 AEST 2019


On Mon, 4 Feb 2019, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On 2019-Feb-03 15:58:39 -0500, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
>> Portability was designed as an >>import<< idea, and they tried to keep you
>> from exporting by getting you to use 'value add.'
>
> This is definitely the approach used by FSF/GNU - witness gcc and bash.

I think the term is "Embrace, Extend, Exterminate" <dalek.jpg>

-uso.


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